Cycles (or, yes, cycles per second), makes sense to English speakers that utterly dominated the literature back then. My ee son is amused when I often refer to kilocycles and megacycles. But "hertz" is as good as cycles for most of the world nowadays.

It's too late I know, but I prefer that they should have used "hertz" as a the unit for voltage. As in, "Damn that HV hertz!"

That's exactly the problem. People used "cycle" as though it was a measure of frequency. In fact, it is not and never has been. The measure of frequency was "cycles per second". The change to Hertz (meaning cycles per second) was a way to counter that. Yes, it took some getting used to

I teach Ohm's Law as E=IR and that is what is on my Ohm's Law "T" Shirt so, no reason to change in my humble opinion.

"Change" - didn't some politician try to foist that on the American People? How's that working out?

A "T" shirt eh? I want one of those. Thats the way I learned ohm's law also, back in 1982 when I was in electronics school. E= Potential Difference, I= Electron Flow, R=Resistance, P=Power. 1st day of school, pretty basic stuff.

The 'E' stands for 'Electromotive Force" which also got bas******** to "voltage" and, then, of course, someone attempted to change the 'E' to a 'V'.If somebody thinks they need to honor all these guys, BUY 'EM A BEER, next time you see 'em in the bar, but leave the self-explanatory symbols and terms alone!Tom

The 'E' stands for 'Electromotive Force" which also got bas******** to "voltage" and, then, of course, someone attempted to change the 'E' to a 'V'.If somebody thinks they need to honor all these guys, BUY 'EM A BEER, next time you see 'em in the bar, but leave the self-explanatory symbols and terms alone!Tom

I'm sure you are correct. However, when I went to college in the early 80's, voltage was described to us as "potential difference", and that terminology was used frequently with Ohms Law, and in physics class. Current flow cannot take place unless there is a path for electron flow from one "potential" to another. The vernacular, and terminology used in Physics stuck with me.

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